The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-03-09

tion, by its refusal to recognize the Senate
as q coordinate branch of the Government,
every effort was made to have the factious
majority in the House leave faction and
attend to the public business of the State.
The Senate went on in regular order and
passed the following bills:
Senate bill No. 81. To protect political
purity, and authorize the holding of pri-
mary elections.
Senate bill No. %. An act to regulate
mining OF coal and manner Of weighing
same. go
Senate bill No. 5S. An act prohibiting
County Auditors from drawing warrants
on County Treasurers in violation of law.
Senate bill No. l72. An act TO prohibit
children under the age of fourteen years
in mining coal or other minerals, manu-
featuring steel or iron.
Senate bill No. 2s6. An act authorizing
the contracting of a loan by the State to
meet casual deficits in the revenue and to
pay interest on the State debt, so as to pro-
vide funds to complete the various State
buildings now in process of construction,
and thus avoid the necessity of discharg-
ing the large number of employees engaged
thereon.
Sanate bill No. 324. An act to provide
for the government and discipline of the
State Prison North and the State Prison
South by one Board of Directors; and de-
terminiDg the officers and directors of the
State Prison South.
Senate bill No. 337. An act making ap-
propriations for the State Government and
its institutions for the fiscal yeGr COM
mencing November /, 1886, and ending
October 81, 1888.
Senate bill No. 235. An act making an.
nual appropriations for the State Govern
ment snd its institutions for the fiscal year
beginning November /, 1887, and ending
October 81, 1888, and each year thereafter,
beginning on the 1st day of November and
ending the DIST day of October of each
year; directing the application of such ap-
pTopriations, requiring accounts to be kept
of the same, and other matters connected
Herewith.
Senate bill No. l34. An act authorizing
the issue of graduated drainage bonds by
the Board of Commissioners for the pay
ment of assessments in drainage. An act
amending the Mechanics Lien law. An
act to prevent the uni iust garnishment of
the wages of laboring men. An act to ap-
point Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner
to prevent the spread OF pleuro-pneumonia
and other contagious and infectious dis
eases among the live stock of the State.
Senate concurrent resolution No. 2. A
joint resolution proposing an amendment
10 section of article of a constitution
providing that all county officers shall
hold their term for four years and be In.
eligible for reelection in any term of eight
years.
These bills and the joint resolution, to-
gether with many others needed by the
people, required by the public welfare. were
passed by the Senate and transmitted in
due course, under the rules of the two
houses, to the House of representatives.,
which was duly notified of their having
been passed; but the House of Represent.
aIives, IN pursuance of their resolution of
obstruction, and deliberately persisting in
their determination to defeat and destroy
all further legislative action refused TO re-
ceive such bills, or to take any notice of
the Senate message declaring that they had
passed, and the same were returned to the
Senate, and yet remain upon lts files.
These bills were passed by the vote of
the Democratic members of the Senate,
and by the further record thereof, show
ing that Republican members of the Senate
were present during the time the vote was
taken upon the passage and refused to vote
for the Republican members of the Senate
after the passage of the House resolution
of obstruction to legislation, conceived
themselves to be bound by the action of
their co-conspirators in the House, and de-
clined to vote on any of these measures.
They occupied their seats after the 25th Of
February the same as they had done be.
fore. They maintained very strict quiet
and order. They sat in silence like deaf
mutes. Several of them, however, drew
their pay by virtue of vouchers signed by
President Smith, an officer whose author
ity they otherwise declined to recognize.
In so doing these Senators did recognize
him in the most positive manner as Presi-
dent of the Senate; and as these vouchers
were presented to Bruce Carr, the Repub-
lican Auditor of State, and warrants drawn
by him upon them, he recognized Smiths
authority; and as the Treasurer OF State
paid such warrants, he recognized Smiths
authority. The Speaker of the House,
after the 25th day of February, still con-
tinued the consideration Of Senate bills
upon his files certified to be passed by the
signature of Smith as President of the Sem
ate, and the Speaker of the House,
together with the insurrectionary majority
and revolutionary mob which had pre-
tended to usurp the functions of legisla-
tion, if they recognized nothing else, they
recognized Smith authority as President of
the Senate in considering the bills which
had been transmitted TO them verified by
his signature. One of the measures passed
by both Houses, coming into the hands of
the Speaker after the 25th of February, was
that appropriating sum Of money-S2OO,-
OO0-for the erection of a soldiers monu-
ment by the State OF Indiana. To this bill
Speaker Sayre attached his signature, and
afterward procured the spurious pretender
to the Office of Lieutenant-Gov to at
tacb his signature thereto, and then trans
mi tied the bill to the Governor for his
action. The Governor, declining to recUg-
nize the signature of the pretended Lieu
tenant-Governor. directed its erasure and
asked that the bill be signed by Smith as
President of the Senate, which being done
the Governor promptly approved the same
and filed it into the Office of the Secretary
of State, and sent the following message to
the House of Representatives:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
INDIANAPOLIS, March 8, 1857. !
The Honorable, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives:
Senate bill No. 8, entitled "an act to provide
for the erection Of State Soldiers and Sailors
Monument, or Memorial Hall combined, accord
ing to the discretion of the Trustees in this act
provided for and declaring an emergency" and
signed Warren g. sayre, Speaker of the House
OF Representatives. ~ "R 5. Robertson, Lleuten-
ant Governor" was presented TO me by the
House of Representatives for my approval.
The bill .' es not conform to the requirements
OF sectiUD 70, article 4, of the Constitution,
which provides that "all bills and joint Iesolu-
officers Of the respective Houses" and its pres
entation in that form is also in violation OF the
Joint rules adopted by both Houses OF the pres
eDt General Assembly, which reads as follows:
Rule 2 After a bill or Joint resolution shall
have passed both Houses it shall be duly en-
where 1t originated shall indorse upon the back
thereof the House In which IL originated. under
which he shall place his signature.
Rnle 4; Every bill or Joint resolution reported